Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has won backing to create a company to realize his vision, explains why he's so excited about his innovative design for small modular fission reactors -- and why it could be the next big step in solving the global energy crisis.
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At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re making advancements in the development of fusion energy, the ultimate form of renewable power. Our scientists and engineers are looking at the biggest natural fusion reactor for inspiration – the sun. By containing the power of the sun in a small magnetic bottle, we are on the fast track to developing compact fusion reactors to serve the world’s ever-growing energy needs. Learn more about compact fusion: http://lmt.co/1rfsakG

The NationalIgnitionFacility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the world's largest laser system...192 huge laser beams in a massive building, all focused down at the last moment at a 2 millimeter ball containing frozen hydrogen gas. The goal is to achieve fusion... getting more energy out than was used to create it. It's never been done before under controlled conditions, just in nuclear weapons and in stars. The purpose is threefold: to create an almost limitless supply of safe, carbon-free, proliferation-free electricity; examine new regimes of astrophysics as well as basic science; and study the inner-workings of the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure they remain safe, secure and reliable without the need for underground testing. More information about NIF can be found at: https://lasers.llnl.gov

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Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
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http://www.wtsp.com/news/national/article/356537/81/Laser-bombardment-yields-energy-milestone
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-powered-lasers-deliver-fusion-energy-breakthrough/
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TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Our core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. It’s what we call FriendlyFusion. Our groundbreaking work has effected industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on our results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow. Our explainer video will help illustrate the work we’re doing with field-reverse configurations (FRCs), and offer insights into how we operate Norman. / Formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy

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Following the discovery of a doubly charmed baryon at the LHC theoretical physicists have come across a quark fusion process that offers enormous amounts of energy. Could quark fusion one day power humanity? Maybe.
The fusion diagram is taken from the nature article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24289

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Lockheed Martin claims to have a fusion reactor built in the next 5 years. How would this technology work, and what would this mean for the world? Trace explains.
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“Lockheed Martin's secret fusion power program came out of hiding last week. This week, the Skunk Works engineer in charge of the ambitious effort met with reporters to explain just how the defense giant plans to make fusion the real deal within five to 10 years.”
Lockheed Martin’s fusion goals meet scepticism
http://www.nature.com/news/lockheed-martin-s-fusion-goals-meet-scepticism-1.16169
“Lockheed Martin formally entered the nuclear-fusion arena on 15 October, laying out a 10-year roadmap to commercialize a reactor that would fit on the back of a lorry.”
Mr. Fusion? Compact Fusion Reactor Will be Available in 5 Years Says Lockheed-Martin
http://www.universetoday.com/115411/fusion-energy-always-50-years-away-now-just-5-according-to-lockheed-martin/
“The Farnsworth Fusor; Pons and Fleishmann. It seems the trail to fusion energy has long gone cold — stone cold, that is, and not cold as in cold fusion.”
Does Lockheed Martin Really Have a Breakthrough Fusion Machine?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531836/does-lockheed-martin-really-have-a-breakthrough-fusion-machine/
“Lockheed Martin’s announcement last week that it had secretly developed a promising design for a compact nuclear fusion reactor has met with excitement but also skepticism over the basic feasibility of its approach.”
Compact Fusion
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html
“It’s no secret that our Skunk Works® team often finds itself on the cutting edge of technology.”
Harnessing the Energy of Nuclear Fusion Reactions with Superconductors and Lasers
http://www.cas.org/news/insights/science-connections/nuclear-fusion
“What do a six-ton superconductor and the world's largest laser have in common? Both are fundamental components in two very different approaches to harnessing the energy of nuclear fusion reactions.”
Skunk Works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
“Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects.”
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Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
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Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

Fusion power

Fusion power is the generation of energy by nuclear fusion. Fusion reactions are high energy reactions in which two lighter atomic nuclei fuse to form a heavier nucleus. When they combine, some of the mass is converted into energy in accordance with the formula . This major area of plasma physics research is concerned with harnessing this reaction as a source of large scale sustainable energy. There is no question of fusion's scientific feasibility, since stellar nucleosynthesis is the process in which stars transmute matter into energy emitted as radiation.

Lockheed Martin stands as one of the world's premier companies in the aerospace, defense, security, and technologies industry; it is the world's largest defense contractor based on revenue for fiscal year 2014. In 2013, 78% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales; it topped the list of US federal government contractors and received nearly 10% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon. In 2009 US government contracts accounted for $38.4billion (85%), foreign government contracts $5.8billion (13%), and commercial and other contracts for $900 million (2%).

Cold fusion

Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. This is compared with the "hot" fusion which takes place naturally within stars, under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and distinguished from muon-catalyzed fusion. There is currently no accepted theoretical model which would allow cold fusion to occur.

In 1989 Martin Fleischmann (then one of the world's leading electrochemists) and Stanley Pons reported that their apparatus had produced anomalous heat ("excess heat") of a magnitude they asserted would defy explanation except in terms of nuclear processes. They further reported measuring small amounts of nuclear reaction byproducts, including neutrons and tritium. The small tabletop experiment involved electrolysis of heavy water on the surface of a palladium (Pd) electrode. The reported results received wide media attention, and raised hopes of a cheap and abundant source of energy.

Taylor Wilson

Taylor Wilson (born May 7, 1994) is an Americannuclear physicist and science advocate. In 2008, at age 14, he became the youngest person to produce nuclear fusion, using a fusor.

Personal life and education

Taylor Wilson was born in 1994 in Texarkana, Arkansas to Kenneth and Tiffany Wilson. Kenneth is the owner of a Coca-Cola bottling plant, and Tiffany was a Yoga instructor. Wilson was initially interested in rocketry and space science, before entering the field of nuclear science at age 10. He had a lot of support from his parents. During high school Wilson attended both the Davidson Academy of Nevada and the University of Nevada, Reno where he was given a laboratory to conduct his fusion research. He resides in Reno, Nevada.

In June 2012, Wilson was awarded a Thiel Fellowship. The two-year $100,000.00 fellowship requires recipients to forgo college for the duration of the fellowship.

Scientific projects

Fusion reactor

In 2008, Wilson achieved nuclear fusion using an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement device which was a variation of the fusor, invented by Philo T. Farnsworth in 1964. He utilized the flux of neutrons from a deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction to conduct nuclear experiments, as well as studied novel fusion fuels inside the IEC device. In March 2012, Wilson spoke at a TED conference regarding the building of his fusion reactor. Along with the IEC reactors, Wilson has conducted fusion research using Dense Plasma Focus devices he also constructed and developed nuclear diagnostics for basic fusion research.

Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has won backing to create a company to realize his vision, explains why he's so excited about his innovative design for small modular fission reactors -- and why it could be the next big step in solving the global energy crisis.
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Lockheed Martin: Compact Fusion Research & Development

Learn more: http://lockheedmartin.com/compactfusion
At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re making advancements in the development of fusion energy, the ultimate form of renewable power. Our scientists and engineers are looking at the biggest natural fusion reactor for inspiration – the sun. By containing the power of the sun in a small magnetic bottle, we are on the fast track to developing compact fusion reactors to serve the world’s ever-growing energy needs. Learn more about compact fusion: http://lmt.co/1rfsakG

How NIF Works

The NationalIgnitionFacility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the world's largest laser system...192 huge laser beams in a massive building, all focused down at the last moment at a 2 millimeter ball containing frozen hydrogen gas. The goal is to achieve fusion... getting more energy out than was used to create it. It's never been done before under controlled conditions, just in nuclear weapons and in stars. The purpose is threefold: to create an almost limitless supply of safe, carbon-free, proliferation-free electricity; examine new regimes of astrophysics as well as basic science; and study the inner-workings of the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure they remain safe, secure and reliable without the need for underground testing. More information about NIF can be found at: https://lasers.llnl.gov

4:25

Laser Fusion -- Is It Back to the Future Yet?

Laser Fusion -- Is It Back to the Future Yet?

Laser Fusion -- Is It Back to the Future Yet?

Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13008.html
http://www.wtsp.com/news/national/article/356537/81/Laser-bombardment-yields-energy-milestone
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-powered-lasers-deliver-fusion-energy-breakthrough/
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/national-ignition-facility-announces-record-amount-fusion-energy

1:51

Visualizing a Future of Fusion

Visualizing a Future of Fusion

Visualizing a Future of Fusion

TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Our core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. It’s what we call FriendlyFusion. Our groundbreaking work has effected industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on our results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow. Our explainer video will help illustrate the work we’re doing with field-reverse configurations (FRCs), and offer insights into how we operate Norman. / Formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy

6:08

Quark fusion

Quark fusion

Quark fusion

Following the discovery of a doubly charmed baryon at the LHC theoretical physicists have come across a quark fusion process that offers enormous amounts of energy. Could quark fusion one day power humanity? Maybe.
The fusion diagram is taken from the nature article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24289

3:44

Is Fusion Energy Close To Becoming A Reality?

Is Fusion Energy Close To Becoming A Reality?

Is Fusion Energy Close To Becoming A Reality?

Lockheed Martin claims to have a fusion reactor built in the next 5 years. How would this technology work, and what would this mean for the world? Trace explains.
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Lockheed Martin’sPlan to Make Fusion (Finally) a Reality
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/lockheed-martins-plan-to-make-fusion-a-reality-17337914
“Lockheed Martin's secret fusion power program came out of hiding last week. This week, the Skunk Works engineer in charge of the ambitious effort met with reporters to explain just how the defense giant plans to make fusion the real deal within five to 10 years.”
Lockheed Martin’s fusion goals meet scepticism
http://www.nature.com/news/lockheed-martin-s-fusion-goals-meet-scepticism-1.16169
“Lockheed Martin formally entered the nuclear-fusion arena on 15 October, laying out a 10-year roadmap to commercialize a reactor that would fit on the back of a lorry.”
Mr. Fusion? Compact Fusion Reactor Will be Available in 5 Years Says Lockheed-Martin
http://www.universetoday.com/115411/fusion-energy-always-50-years-away-now-just-5-according-to-lockheed-martin/
“The Farnsworth Fusor; Pons and Fleishmann. It seems the trail to fusion energy has long gone cold — stone cold, that is, and not cold as in cold fusion.”
Does Lockheed Martin Really Have a Breakthrough Fusion Machine?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531836/does-lockheed-martin-really-have-a-breakthrough-fusion-machine/
“Lockheed Martin’s announcement last week that it had secretly developed a promising design for a compact nuclear fusion reactor has met with excitement but also skepticism over the basic feasibility of its approach.”
Compact Fusion
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html
“It’s no secret that our Skunk Works® team often finds itself on the cutting edge of technology.”
Harnessing the Energy of Nuclear Fusion Reactions with Superconductors and Lasers
http://www.cas.org/news/insights/science-connections/nuclear-fusion
“What do a six-ton superconductor and the world's largest laser have in common? Both are fundamental components in two very different approaches to harnessing the energy of nuclear fusion reactions.”
Skunk Works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
“Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects.”
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How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
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9:29

Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

The Answer to all our energy "problems": Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion, although virtually ignored by mainstream academic research, has continued underground through the efforts of brave and dedicated scientists. I am now pleased to bring you the technological and theoretical breakthrough we've all been waiting for...Clean, virtually inexhaustible energy in the form of sea water! Let the Cold Fusion Revolution begin!
1 Teaspoon of Heavy Water has the energy content of 300 Gallons of Gasoline. You could go 55 million miles on a gallon. There is enough deuterium fusion fuel in the top 1 foot of seawater in the San Francisco Bay to supply all of mankind's projected energy needs for the next 50-100 years... And you wonder why the Federal Reserve Corporation has been suppressing it... Since their petro-dollars and their power is backed by Oil.
India's Top ScientistsAdviseGovernment to revive cold fusion research:
http://www.indianewspost.com/sci-tech/40503-cold_fusion_offers_best_way_to_generate_power_scientist.html
Cold Fusion is real power generation source:
http://www.nature.com/nindia/2008/080117/full/nindia.2008.77.html
Cold Fusion NOW!
http://coldfusionnow.org/
US NAVY Report on Cold Fusion:
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/tr/1696/tr1696.pdfWired Science article on US Navy Cold Fusion:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/cold_fusion
Some important information about Steven E. Jones' involvement in cold fusion research (Very helpful Information):
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/131history.html
The ObamaSpeech can be found here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-a-discussion-jobs-and-economy-charlotte-north-carolina
Cold Fusion Links:
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/ColdFusionHistory.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110450.htm
http://www.livescience.com/technology/090323-cold-fusion.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/6726-could-cold-fusion-really-workr/
http://www.dailytech.com/Navy+Heats+Up+Cold+Fusion+Hopes/article7168.htm
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/319galileo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant
"Znidarsic's Constant" 1,094,000 m/s - is the key to Cold Fusion and has many other practical applications of atomic resonance effects for control over the natural forces.
The Theory and work of Frank Znidarsic:
Frank Znidarsic's latest versions of his papers:
The Quantization of Energy: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46167299
Control of the Natural Forces: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46167516
Here is a summary of Frank's work written for scientists:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42057333/The-Transitional-Quantum-State-of-Matter
(if you want to show this theory to a physicist or scientist, this is the paper to print out and give to them)
Frank's Papers:
1) The duality of Matter and Waves:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34365659
2) Reconciling Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33043355/
3) Control of the Natural Forces
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25455268/Control-of-the-Natural-Forces
Znidarsic's Constant on Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1094000+m%2Fs
Frank Znidarsic's Website with all the info:
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/
Chapter 7 on Frank's website details some important steps such as deriving the Schrodinger Equation from Znidarsic's Constant. It also shows exactly what gravity is, and where it comes from.
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/chapter7.html
Important stuff to know about magnetic fields:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwells_equations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%27_theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

A smaller, faster, cheaper route to fusion energy science nature

Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has won backing to create a company to realize his vision, explains why he's so excited about his innovative design for small modular fission reactors -- and why it could be the next big step in solving the global energy crisis.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://ww...

Lockheed Martin: Compact Fusion Research & Development

Learn more: http://lockheedmartin.com/compactfusion
At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re making advancements in the development of fusion energy, the ultimate form of renewable power. Our scientists and engineers are looking at the biggest natural fusion reactor for inspiration – the sun. By containing the power of the sun in a small magnetic bottle, we are on the fast track to developing compact fusion reactors to serve the world’s ever-growing energy needs. Learn more about compact fusion: http://lmt.co/1rfsakG

How NIF Works

The NationalIgnitionFacility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the world's largest laser system...192 huge laser beams in a massive building, all focused down at the last moment at a 2 millimeter ball containing frozen hydrogen gas. The goal is to achieve fusion... getting more energy out than was used to create it. It's never been done before under controlled conditions, just in nuclear weapons and in stars. The purpose is threefold: to create an almost limitless supply of safe, carbon-free, proliferation-free electricity; examine new regimes of astrophysics as well as basic science; and study the inner-workings of the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure they remain safe, secure and reliable without the need for underground testing. More information about ...

published: 30 Jul 2009

Laser Fusion -- Is It Back to the Future Yet?

Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
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published: 23 Feb 2014

Visualizing a Future of Fusion

TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Our core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. It’s what we call FriendlyFusion. Our groundbreaking work has effected industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on our results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow. Our explainer video will help illustrate the work we’re doing with field-reverse configurations (FRCs), and offer insights into how we operate Norman. / Formerly known as Tri Alpha Ene...

published: 04 Dec 2017

Quark fusion

Following the discovery of a doubly charmed baryon at the LHC theoretical physicists have come across a quark fusion process that offers enormous amounts of energy. Could quark fusion one day power humanity? Maybe.
The fusion diagram is taken from the nature article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24289

published: 13 Dec 2017

Is Fusion Energy Close To Becoming A Reality?

Lockheed Martin claims to have a fusion reactor built in the next 5 years. How would this technology work, and what would this mean for the world? Trace explains.
Get 15% off http://www.domain.com’s s domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code DNEWS at checkout!
Read More:
Lockheed Martin’sPlan to Make Fusion (Finally) a Reality
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/lockheed-martins-plan-to-make-fusion-a-reality-17337914
“Lockheed Martin's secret fusion power program came out of hiding last week. This week, the Skunk Works engineer in charge of the ambitious effort met with reporters to explain just how the defense giant plans to make fusion the real deal within five to 10 years.”
Lockheed Martin’s fusion goals meet scepticism
http://www.na...

published: 25 Oct 2014

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
Parts of this video were in the process of being made for over 6 years, so I'm very excited to finally share it with the world. Many of the newer parts were filmed at Scihouse and this video wouldn't have been possible without Scihouse. For more info on Scihouse, check out the links below:
Website: http://www.scihouse.space/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.co...

published: 17 Apr 2017

Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

published: 06 Oct 2013

Fusion: Nature's Fundamental Energy Source 3/3

The Answer to all our energy "problems": Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion, although virtually ignored by mainstream academic research, has continued underground through the efforts of brave and dedicated scientists. I am now pleased to bring you the technological and theoretical breakthrough we've all been waiting for...Clean, virtually inexhaustible energy in the form of sea water! Let the Cold Fusion Revolution begin!
1 Teaspoon of Heavy Water has the energy content of 300 Gallons of Gasoline. You could go 55 million miles on a gallon. There is enough deuterium fusion fuel in the top 1 foot of seawater in the San Francisco Bay to supply all of mankind's projected energy needs for the next 50-100 years... And you wonder why the Federal Reserve Corporation has been suppressing it... Since their petro-dollars and their power is backed by Oil.
Indi...

Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: f...

Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has won backing to create a company to realize his vision, explains why he's so excited about his innovative design for small modular fission reactors -- and why it could be the next big step in solving the global energy crisis.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
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Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has won backing to create a company to realize his vision, explains why he's so excited about his innovative design for small modular fission reactors -- and why it could be the next big step in solving the global energy crisis.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
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Learn more: http://lockheedmartin.com/compactfusion
At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re making advancements in the development of fusion energy, the ultimate form of renewable power. Our scientists and engineers are looking at the biggest natural fusion reactor for inspiration – the sun. By containing the power of the sun in a small magnetic bottle, we are on the fast track to developing compact fusion reactors to serve the world’s ever-growing energy needs. Learn more about compact fusion: http://lmt.co/1rfsakG

Learn more: http://lockheedmartin.com/compactfusion
At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re making advancements in the development of fusion energy, the ultimate form of renewable power. Our scientists and engineers are looking at the biggest natural fusion reactor for inspiration – the sun. By containing the power of the sun in a small magnetic bottle, we are on the fast track to developing compact fusion reactors to serve the world’s ever-growing energy needs. Learn more about compact fusion: http://lmt.co/1rfsakG

The NationalIgnitionFacility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the world's largest laser system...192 huge laser beams in a massive building, all focused down at the last moment at a 2 millimeter ball containing frozen hydrogen gas. The goal is to achieve fusion... getting more energy out than was used to create it. It's never been done before under controlled conditions, just in nuclear weapons and in stars. The purpose is threefold: to create an almost limitless supply of safe, carbon-free, proliferation-free electricity; examine new regimes of astrophysics as well as basic science; and study the inner-workings of the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure they remain safe, secure and reliable without the need for underground testing. More information about NIF can be found at: https://lasers.llnl.gov

The NationalIgnitionFacility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the world's largest laser system...192 huge laser beams in a massive building, all focused down at the last moment at a 2 millimeter ball containing frozen hydrogen gas. The goal is to achieve fusion... getting more energy out than was used to create it. It's never been done before under controlled conditions, just in nuclear weapons and in stars. The purpose is threefold: to create an almost limitless supply of safe, carbon-free, proliferation-free electricity; examine new regimes of astrophysics as well as basic science; and study the inner-workings of the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure they remain safe, secure and reliable without the need for underground testing. More information about NIF can be found at: https://lasers.llnl.gov

Laser Fusion -- Is It Back to the Future Yet?

Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get thin...

Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13008.html
http://www.wtsp.com/news/national/article/356537/81/Laser-bombardment-yields-energy-milestone
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-powered-lasers-deliver-fusion-energy-breakthrough/
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/national-ignition-facility-announces-record-amount-fusion-energy

Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
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sources:
https://lasers.llnl.gov/
https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2014/Feb/NR-14-02-06.html#.UwOdTl5DGU1
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13008.html
http://www.wtsp.com/news/national/article/356537/81/Laser-bombardment-yields-energy-milestone
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-powered-lasers-deliver-fusion-energy-breakthrough/
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/national-ignition-facility-announces-record-amount-fusion-energy

Visualizing a Future of Fusion

TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Our core mission is to create a new source of clean...

TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Our core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. It’s what we call FriendlyFusion. Our groundbreaking work has effected industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on our results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow. Our explainer video will help illustrate the work we’re doing with field-reverse configurations (FRCs), and offer insights into how we operate Norman. / Formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy

TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Our core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. It’s what we call FriendlyFusion. Our groundbreaking work has effected industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on our results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow. Our explainer video will help illustrate the work we’re doing with field-reverse configurations (FRCs), and offer insights into how we operate Norman. / Formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy

Quark fusion

Following the discovery of a doubly charmed baryon at the LHC theoretical physicists have come across a quark fusion process that offers enormous amounts of ene...

Following the discovery of a doubly charmed baryon at the LHC theoretical physicists have come across a quark fusion process that offers enormous amounts of energy. Could quark fusion one day power humanity? Maybe.
The fusion diagram is taken from the nature article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24289

Following the discovery of a doubly charmed baryon at the LHC theoretical physicists have come across a quark fusion process that offers enormous amounts of energy. Could quark fusion one day power humanity? Maybe.
The fusion diagram is taken from the nature article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24289

Is Fusion Energy Close To Becoming A Reality?

Lockheed Martin claims to have a fusion reactor built in the next 5 years. How would this technology work, and what would this mean for the world? Trace explain...

Lockheed Martin claims to have a fusion reactor built in the next 5 years. How would this technology work, and what would this mean for the world? Trace explains.
Get 15% off http://www.domain.com’s s domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code DNEWS at checkout!
Read More:
Lockheed Martin’sPlan to Make Fusion (Finally) a Reality
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/lockheed-martins-plan-to-make-fusion-a-reality-17337914
“Lockheed Martin's secret fusion power program came out of hiding last week. This week, the Skunk Works engineer in charge of the ambitious effort met with reporters to explain just how the defense giant plans to make fusion the real deal within five to 10 years.”
Lockheed Martin’s fusion goals meet scepticism
http://www.nature.com/news/lockheed-martin-s-fusion-goals-meet-scepticism-1.16169
“Lockheed Martin formally entered the nuclear-fusion arena on 15 October, laying out a 10-year roadmap to commercialize a reactor that would fit on the back of a lorry.”
Mr. Fusion? Compact Fusion Reactor Will be Available in 5 Years Says Lockheed-Martin
http://www.universetoday.com/115411/fusion-energy-always-50-years-away-now-just-5-according-to-lockheed-martin/
“The Farnsworth Fusor; Pons and Fleishmann. It seems the trail to fusion energy has long gone cold — stone cold, that is, and not cold as in cold fusion.”
Does Lockheed Martin Really Have a Breakthrough Fusion Machine?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531836/does-lockheed-martin-really-have-a-breakthrough-fusion-machine/
“Lockheed Martin’s announcement last week that it had secretly developed a promising design for a compact nuclear fusion reactor has met with excitement but also skepticism over the basic feasibility of its approach.”
Compact Fusion
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html
“It’s no secret that our Skunk Works® team often finds itself on the cutting edge of technology.”
Harnessing the Energy of Nuclear Fusion Reactions with Superconductors and Lasers
http://www.cas.org/news/insights/science-connections/nuclear-fusion
“What do a six-ton superconductor and the world's largest laser have in common? Both are fundamental components in two very different approaches to harnessing the energy of nuclear fusion reactions.”
Skunk Works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
“Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects.”
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Lockheed Martin claims to have a fusion reactor built in the next 5 years. How would this technology work, and what would this mean for the world? Trace explains.
Get 15% off http://www.domain.com’s s domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code DNEWS at checkout!
Read More:
Lockheed Martin’sPlan to Make Fusion (Finally) a Reality
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/lockheed-martins-plan-to-make-fusion-a-reality-17337914
“Lockheed Martin's secret fusion power program came out of hiding last week. This week, the Skunk Works engineer in charge of the ambitious effort met with reporters to explain just how the defense giant plans to make fusion the real deal within five to 10 years.”
Lockheed Martin’s fusion goals meet scepticism
http://www.nature.com/news/lockheed-martin-s-fusion-goals-meet-scepticism-1.16169
“Lockheed Martin formally entered the nuclear-fusion arena on 15 October, laying out a 10-year roadmap to commercialize a reactor that would fit on the back of a lorry.”
Mr. Fusion? Compact Fusion Reactor Will be Available in 5 Years Says Lockheed-Martin
http://www.universetoday.com/115411/fusion-energy-always-50-years-away-now-just-5-according-to-lockheed-martin/
“The Farnsworth Fusor; Pons and Fleishmann. It seems the trail to fusion energy has long gone cold — stone cold, that is, and not cold as in cold fusion.”
Does Lockheed Martin Really Have a Breakthrough Fusion Machine?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531836/does-lockheed-martin-really-have-a-breakthrough-fusion-machine/
“Lockheed Martin’s announcement last week that it had secretly developed a promising design for a compact nuclear fusion reactor has met with excitement but also skepticism over the basic feasibility of its approach.”
Compact Fusion
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html
“It’s no secret that our Skunk Works® team often finds itself on the cutting edge of technology.”
Harnessing the Energy of Nuclear Fusion Reactions with Superconductors and Lasers
http://www.cas.org/news/insights/science-connections/nuclear-fusion
“What do a six-ton superconductor and the world's largest laser have in common? Both are fundamental components in two very different approaches to harnessing the energy of nuclear fusion reactions.”
Skunk Works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
“Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects.”
____________________
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published:25 Oct 2014

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How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explo...

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
Parts of this video were in the process of being made for over 6 years, so I'm very excited to finally share it with the world. Many of the newer parts were filmed at Scihouse and this video wouldn't have been possible without Scihouse. For more info on Scihouse, check out the links below:
Website: http://www.scihouse.space/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scihousejax
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scihousejax/
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Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/scihouse/
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Useful links:
Making a Scariac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UjxG8sN1c
Inductive ballasts - http://www.lisungroup.com/article-id-167.htmlFusor forums - fusor.net
Applied scienceMagnetron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEz_e9C4KM
Circuit tool - http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
__________________________________________________________________
As always, thanks to my awesome Patrons for helping to make these video possible. If you're like to support the continued production of science videos like this one, consider donating: hhtps://patreon.com/thethoughtemporium
Thanks to:
-Jesse Hughes
-Roshawn Terrel
-Anita Fowler

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
Parts of this video were in the process of being made for over 6 years, so I'm very excited to finally share it with the world. Many of the newer parts were filmed at Scihouse and this video wouldn't have been possible without Scihouse. For more info on Scihouse, check out the links below:
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Useful links:
Making a Scariac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UjxG8sN1c
Inductive ballasts - http://www.lisungroup.com/article-id-167.htmlFusor forums - fusor.net
Applied scienceMagnetron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEz_e9C4KM
Circuit tool - http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
__________________________________________________________________
As always, thanks to my awesome Patrons for helping to make these video possible. If you're like to support the continued production of science videos like this one, consider donating: hhtps://patreon.com/thethoughtemporium
Thanks to:
-Jesse Hughes
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published:17 Apr 2017

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Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

The Answer to all our energy "problems": Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion, although virtually ignored by mainstream academic research, has continued underground through the efforts of brave and dedicated scientists. I am n...

Cold Fusion, although virtually ignored by mainstream academic research, has continued underground through the efforts of brave and dedicated scientists. I am now pleased to bring you the technological and theoretical breakthrough we've all been waiting for...Clean, virtually inexhaustible energy in the form of sea water! Let the Cold Fusion Revolution begin!
1 Teaspoon of Heavy Water has the energy content of 300 Gallons of Gasoline. You could go 55 million miles on a gallon. There is enough deuterium fusion fuel in the top 1 foot of seawater in the San Francisco Bay to supply all of mankind's projected energy needs for the next 50-100 years... And you wonder why the Federal Reserve Corporation has been suppressing it... Since their petro-dollars and their power is backed by Oil.
India's Top ScientistsAdviseGovernment to revive cold fusion research:
http://www.indianewspost.com/sci-tech/40503-cold_fusion_offers_best_way_to_generate_power_scientist.html
Cold Fusion is real power generation source:
http://www.nature.com/nindia/2008/080117/full/nindia.2008.77.html
Cold Fusion NOW!
http://coldfusionnow.org/
US NAVY Report on Cold Fusion:
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/tr/1696/tr1696.pdfWired Science article on US Navy Cold Fusion:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/cold_fusion
Some important information about Steven E. Jones' involvement in cold fusion research (Very helpful Information):
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/131history.html
The ObamaSpeech can be found here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-a-discussion-jobs-and-economy-charlotte-north-carolina
Cold Fusion Links:
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/ColdFusionHistory.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110450.htm
http://www.livescience.com/technology/090323-cold-fusion.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/6726-could-cold-fusion-really-workr/
http://www.dailytech.com/Navy+Heats+Up+Cold+Fusion+Hopes/article7168.htm
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/319galileo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant
"Znidarsic's Constant" 1,094,000 m/s - is the key to Cold Fusion and has many other practical applications of atomic resonance effects for control over the natural forces.
The Theory and work of Frank Znidarsic:
Frank Znidarsic's latest versions of his papers:
The Quantization of Energy: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46167299
Control of the Natural Forces: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46167516
Here is a summary of Frank's work written for scientists:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42057333/The-Transitional-Quantum-State-of-Matter
(if you want to show this theory to a physicist or scientist, this is the paper to print out and give to them)
Frank's Papers:
1) The duality of Matter and Waves:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34365659
2) Reconciling Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33043355/
3) Control of the Natural Forces
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25455268/Control-of-the-Natural-Forces
Znidarsic's Constant on Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1094000+m%2Fs
Frank Znidarsic's Website with all the info:
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/
Chapter 7 on Frank's website details some important steps such as deriving the Schrodinger Equation from Znidarsic's Constant. It also shows exactly what gravity is, and where it comes from.
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/chapter7.html
Important stuff to know about magnetic fields:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwells_equations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%27_theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

Cold Fusion, although virtually ignored by mainstream academic research, has continued underground through the efforts of brave and dedicated scientists. I am now pleased to bring you the technological and theoretical breakthrough we've all been waiting for...Clean, virtually inexhaustible energy in the form of sea water! Let the Cold Fusion Revolution begin!
1 Teaspoon of Heavy Water has the energy content of 300 Gallons of Gasoline. You could go 55 million miles on a gallon. There is enough deuterium fusion fuel in the top 1 foot of seawater in the San Francisco Bay to supply all of mankind's projected energy needs for the next 50-100 years... And you wonder why the Federal Reserve Corporation has been suppressing it... Since their petro-dollars and their power is backed by Oil.
India's Top ScientistsAdviseGovernment to revive cold fusion research:
http://www.indianewspost.com/sci-tech/40503-cold_fusion_offers_best_way_to_generate_power_scientist.html
Cold Fusion is real power generation source:
http://www.nature.com/nindia/2008/080117/full/nindia.2008.77.html
Cold Fusion NOW!
http://coldfusionnow.org/
US NAVY Report on Cold Fusion:
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/tr/1696/tr1696.pdfWired Science article on US Navy Cold Fusion:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/cold_fusion
Some important information about Steven E. Jones' involvement in cold fusion research (Very helpful Information):
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/131history.html
The ObamaSpeech can be found here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-a-discussion-jobs-and-economy-charlotte-north-carolina
Cold Fusion Links:
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/ColdFusionHistory.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110450.htm
http://www.livescience.com/technology/090323-cold-fusion.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/6726-could-cold-fusion-really-workr/
http://www.dailytech.com/Navy+Heats+Up+Cold+Fusion+Hopes/article7168.htm
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/319galileo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant
"Znidarsic's Constant" 1,094,000 m/s - is the key to Cold Fusion and has many other practical applications of atomic resonance effects for control over the natural forces.
The Theory and work of Frank Znidarsic:
Frank Znidarsic's latest versions of his papers:
The Quantization of Energy: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46167299
Control of the Natural Forces: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46167516
Here is a summary of Frank's work written for scientists:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42057333/The-Transitional-Quantum-State-of-Matter
(if you want to show this theory to a physicist or scientist, this is the paper to print out and give to them)
Frank's Papers:
1) The duality of Matter and Waves:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34365659
2) Reconciling Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33043355/
3) Control of the Natural Forces
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25455268/Control-of-the-Natural-Forces
Znidarsic's Constant on Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1094000+m%2Fs
Frank Znidarsic's Website with all the info:
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/
Chapter 7 on Frank's website details some important steps such as deriving the Schrodinger Equation from Znidarsic's Constant. It also shows exactly what gravity is, and where it comes from.
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/chapter7.html
Important stuff to know about magnetic fields:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwells_equations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%27_theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
Parts of this video were in the process of being made for over 6 years, so I'm very excited to finally share it with the world. Many of the newer parts were filmed at Scihouse and this video wouldn't have been possible without Scihouse. For more info on Scihouse, check out the links below:
Website: http://www.scihouse.space/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.co...

published: 17 Apr 2017

America and The Nuclear Fusion Full Documentary 2016 Movies

A team of scientists in California announced Wednesday they are one step closer to developing the almost mythical pollution-free, controlled fusion-energy reaction, though the goal of full “ignition” is still far off.
Researchers at the federally-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory revealed in a study released Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature that, for the first time, one of their experiments has yielded more energy out of fusion than was used in the fuel that created the reaction.
In a 10-story building the size of three football fields, the Livermore scientists “used 192 lasers to compress a pellet of fuel and generate a reaction in which more energy came out of the fuel core than went into it,” wrote the Washington Post. “Ignition” would mean more energy was prod...

published: 20 Sep 2016

Cavitation-Induced Fusion: Proof of Concept

Max Fomitchev-Zamilov - Cavitation-induced fusion (also known as bubble fusion or sonofusion) has been a topic of much debate and controversy and is generally (albeit incorrectly) perceived as unworkable. In this paper we present the theoretical foundations of cavitation-induced fusion and summarize the experimental results of the research conducted in the past 20 years. Based on the systematic study of all available data we conclude that the cavitation-induced fusion is feasible, doable, and can be used for commercial power generation. We present the results of our own research and disclose a commercial reactor prototype.

The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

Google Tech TalksNovember 18, 2008
ABSTRACT
Electrical power is, and will increasingly become, the desired form of energy for its convenience, safety, flexibility and applicability. Even future transportation embraces electric cars, trains, and chemical fuel production (jet fuel, hydrogen, etc.) based upon an abundant electrical supply. Although existing energy sources can and should be expanded where practical, no one source has shown to be practical to rapidly fulfill the world's energy requirements effectively. Presently there is an existing source of energy ideally suited to electrical energy production that is not being exploited anywhere in the world today, although its existence and practicality has been know since the earliest days of nuclear science. Thorium is the third s...

Mariko Mori is an artist who comes from a background in fashion, modeling and design. In 1993, she moved to New York City and enrolled in the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, changing her career path from design to fine art. Mori is recognized for her distinctive style portraying Japanese tradition and futuristic thought, rarely bound to a particular space or time.She is a multifaceted artist who knows how to utilize her talents in a combination of ways. Over several different presentations of her work, she wore clothing she designed herself and appeared in her own art.
Meet Mariko Mori in this fifth episode of BrilliantIdeas brought to you by Bloomberg and Hyundai Motor.

published: 17 Sep 2015

The Impact of Nuclear Fusion

A detailed look at how Nuclear Fusion could impact our economy and civilization, from agriculture and water shortages to space stations and interstellar travel.
Support the Channel on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur
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https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/cs03-the-impact-of-nuclear-fusion

published: 21 Nov 2015

The Future of Energy (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 9)

At the UN Climate ChangeConference in Paris, world leaders agreed that climate change is an urgent threat -- cementing green energy production as a new frontier of innovation. VICE takes an in-depth look at the future of how we make and use energy, and how we can meet growing demand as we cut carbon emissions.
WatchSeason 1: http://bit.ly/2s1T4Zs
Watch Season 2: http://bit.ly/2qJRA6j
Watch Season 3: http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-S3
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published: 21 Jul 2017

Thorium 2017

Thorium is an abundant material currently disposed of as waste. It is found in coal ash piles and mine tailings. A single Rare Earths mine could produce enough Thorium byproduct to power the entire planet.
To do so requires a very different nuclear reactor than the kinds we use today. Not one that uses solid fuel rods, but a reactor in which the fuel is kept in a liquid state. Not one that uses pressurized water as a coolant, but a reactor that uses extremely stable molten salts.
The full description of one such reactor is: 2-Fluid, Thermal-Spectrum, Molten-Salt Breeder Reactor equipped with a chemical fuel salt treatment module. Such a reactor was conceived of decades ago, as documented in the book "FluidFuel Reactors" [1958].
Or, simply "LFTR" (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) as pro...

published: 23 Jul 2017

Harnessing Fusion Energy: The Power of Light

Our future health, happiness and economic well-being depends on producing plentiful, inexpensive, carbon-free energy that is available 24 hours/day, worldwide. Coal, oil and gas supply over 80% of the world's energy but cause pollution and add to global warming. Renewable energy, such as wind and solar, may not be able to supply enough energy. Ed Moses and the National Ignition Facility have an idea that could change everything-fusion energy-unlocking the force inside the nucleus of hydrogen that powers the sun and the stars. Learn what it will take for fusion power to become a reality in the next few decades. Series: "Science on Saturday" [1/2011] [Science] [Show ID: 20233]

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explo...

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
Parts of this video were in the process of being made for over 6 years, so I'm very excited to finally share it with the world. Many of the newer parts were filmed at Scihouse and this video wouldn't have been possible without Scihouse. For more info on Scihouse, check out the links below:
Website: http://www.scihouse.space/
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Making a Scariac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UjxG8sN1c
Inductive ballasts - http://www.lisungroup.com/article-id-167.htmlFusor forums - fusor.net
Applied scienceMagnetron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEz_e9C4KM
Circuit tool - http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
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Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
Parts of this video were in the process of being made for over 6 years, so I'm very excited to finally share it with the world. Many of the newer parts were filmed at Scihouse and this video wouldn't have been possible without Scihouse. For more info on Scihouse, check out the links below:
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Making a Scariac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UjxG8sN1c
Inductive ballasts - http://www.lisungroup.com/article-id-167.htmlFusor forums - fusor.net
Applied scienceMagnetron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEz_e9C4KM
Circuit tool - http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
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As always, thanks to my awesome Patrons for helping to make these video possible. If you're like to support the continued production of science videos like this one, consider donating: hhtps://patreon.com/thethoughtemporium
Thanks to:
-Jesse Hughes
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-Anita Fowler

America and The Nuclear Fusion Full Documentary 2016 Movies

A team of scientists in California announced Wednesday they are one step closer to developing the almost mythical pollution-free, controlled fusion-energy react...

A team of scientists in California announced Wednesday they are one step closer to developing the almost mythical pollution-free, controlled fusion-energy reaction, though the goal of full “ignition” is still far off.
Researchers at the federally-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory revealed in a study released Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature that, for the first time, one of their experiments has yielded more energy out of fusion than was used in the fuel that created the reaction.
In a 10-story building the size of three football fields, the Livermore scientists “used 192 lasers to compress a pellet of fuel and generate a reaction in which more energy came out of the fuel core than went into it,” wrote the Washington Post. “Ignition” would mean more energy was produced than was used in the entire process.
"We're closer than anyone's gotten before," said Omar Hurricane, a physicist at Livermore and lead author of the study. "It does show there's promise."
The process ultimately mimics the processes in the core of a star inside the laboratory’s hardware. Nuclear fusion, which is how the sun is heated, creates energy when atomic nuclei fuse and form a larger atom.
"This isn't like building a bridge," Hurricane told USA Today in an interview. "This is an exceedingly hard problem. You're basically trying to produce a star, on a small scale, here on Earth."
A fusion reactor would operate on a common form of hydrogen found in sea water and create minimal nuclear waste while not being nearly as volatile as a traditional nuclear-fission reactor. Fission, used in nuclear power plants, works by splitting atoms.
Hurricane said he does not know how long it will take to reach that point, where fusion is a viable energy source.
"Picture yourself halfway up a mountain, but the mountain is covered in clouds," he told reporters on a conference call Wednesday. “And then someone calls you on your satellite phone and asks you, ‘How long is it going to take you to climb to the top of the mountain?’ You just don’t know.”
The beams of the 192 lasers Livermore used can pinpoint extreme amounts of energy in billionth-of-a-second pulses on any target. Hurricane said the energy produced by the process was about twice the amount that was in the fuel of the plastic-capsule target. Though the amount of energy yielded equaled only around 1 percent of energy delivered by the lasers to the capsule to ignite the process.
“When briefly compressed by the laser pulses, the isotopes fused, generating new particles and heating up the fuel further and generating still more nuclear reactions, particles and heat,” wrote the Washington Post, adding that the feedback mechanism is known as “alpha heating.”
DebbieCallahan, co-author of the study, said the capsule had to be compressed 35 times to start the reaction, “akin to compressing a basketball to the size of a pea,” according to USA Today.
While applauding the Livermore team’s findings, fusion experts added researchers have “a factor of about 100 to go.”
"These results are still a long way from ignition, but they represent a significant step forward in fusion research," said Mark Herrmann of the Sandia National Laboratories' Pulsed Power Sciences Center. "Achieving pressures this large, even for vanishingly short times, is no easy task."
Livermore is the site of the multi-billion-dollar National Ignition Facility, funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration. Fusion experiments aren’t the only function of the lab; for example, it also studies the processes of nuclear weapon explosions.
Long-pursued by scientists dating back to Albert Einstein, fusion energy does not emit greenhouse gases or leave behind radioactive waste. Since the 1940s, researchers have employed magnetic fields to contain high-temperature hydrogen fuel. Laser use began in the 1970s.
"We have waited 60 years to get close to controlled fusion," said, Steve Cowley, of the United Kingdom'sCulham Center for Fusion Energy. He added scientists are "now close" with both magnets and lasers. "We must keep at it."
Stewart Prager - director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, which studies fusion using magnets - told the Post he was optimistic about fusion energy’s future.

A team of scientists in California announced Wednesday they are one step closer to developing the almost mythical pollution-free, controlled fusion-energy reaction, though the goal of full “ignition” is still far off.
Researchers at the federally-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory revealed in a study released Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature that, for the first time, one of their experiments has yielded more energy out of fusion than was used in the fuel that created the reaction.
In a 10-story building the size of three football fields, the Livermore scientists “used 192 lasers to compress a pellet of fuel and generate a reaction in which more energy came out of the fuel core than went into it,” wrote the Washington Post. “Ignition” would mean more energy was produced than was used in the entire process.
"We're closer than anyone's gotten before," said Omar Hurricane, a physicist at Livermore and lead author of the study. "It does show there's promise."
The process ultimately mimics the processes in the core of a star inside the laboratory’s hardware. Nuclear fusion, which is how the sun is heated, creates energy when atomic nuclei fuse and form a larger atom.
"This isn't like building a bridge," Hurricane told USA Today in an interview. "This is an exceedingly hard problem. You're basically trying to produce a star, on a small scale, here on Earth."
A fusion reactor would operate on a common form of hydrogen found in sea water and create minimal nuclear waste while not being nearly as volatile as a traditional nuclear-fission reactor. Fission, used in nuclear power plants, works by splitting atoms.
Hurricane said he does not know how long it will take to reach that point, where fusion is a viable energy source.
"Picture yourself halfway up a mountain, but the mountain is covered in clouds," he told reporters on a conference call Wednesday. “And then someone calls you on your satellite phone and asks you, ‘How long is it going to take you to climb to the top of the mountain?’ You just don’t know.”
The beams of the 192 lasers Livermore used can pinpoint extreme amounts of energy in billionth-of-a-second pulses on any target. Hurricane said the energy produced by the process was about twice the amount that was in the fuel of the plastic-capsule target. Though the amount of energy yielded equaled only around 1 percent of energy delivered by the lasers to the capsule to ignite the process.
“When briefly compressed by the laser pulses, the isotopes fused, generating new particles and heating up the fuel further and generating still more nuclear reactions, particles and heat,” wrote the Washington Post, adding that the feedback mechanism is known as “alpha heating.”
DebbieCallahan, co-author of the study, said the capsule had to be compressed 35 times to start the reaction, “akin to compressing a basketball to the size of a pea,” according to USA Today.
While applauding the Livermore team’s findings, fusion experts added researchers have “a factor of about 100 to go.”
"These results are still a long way from ignition, but they represent a significant step forward in fusion research," said Mark Herrmann of the Sandia National Laboratories' Pulsed Power Sciences Center. "Achieving pressures this large, even for vanishingly short times, is no easy task."
Livermore is the site of the multi-billion-dollar National Ignition Facility, funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration. Fusion experiments aren’t the only function of the lab; for example, it also studies the processes of nuclear weapon explosions.
Long-pursued by scientists dating back to Albert Einstein, fusion energy does not emit greenhouse gases or leave behind radioactive waste. Since the 1940s, researchers have employed magnetic fields to contain high-temperature hydrogen fuel. Laser use began in the 1970s.
"We have waited 60 years to get close to controlled fusion," said, Steve Cowley, of the United Kingdom'sCulham Center for Fusion Energy. He added scientists are "now close" with both magnets and lasers. "We must keep at it."
Stewart Prager - director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, which studies fusion using magnets - told the Post he was optimistic about fusion energy’s future.

Cavitation-Induced Fusion: Proof of Concept

Max Fomitchev-Zamilov - Cavitation-induced fusion (also known as bubble fusion or sonofusion) has been a topic of much debate and controversy and is generally (...

Max Fomitchev-Zamilov - Cavitation-induced fusion (also known as bubble fusion or sonofusion) has been a topic of much debate and controversy and is generally (albeit incorrectly) perceived as unworkable. In this paper we present the theoretical foundations of cavitation-induced fusion and summarize the experimental results of the research conducted in the past 20 years. Based on the systematic study of all available data we conclude that the cavitation-induced fusion is feasible, doable, and can be used for commercial power generation. We present the results of our own research and disclose a commercial reactor prototype.

Max Fomitchev-Zamilov - Cavitation-induced fusion (also known as bubble fusion or sonofusion) has been a topic of much debate and controversy and is generally (albeit incorrectly) perceived as unworkable. In this paper we present the theoretical foundations of cavitation-induced fusion and summarize the experimental results of the research conducted in the past 20 years. Based on the systematic study of all available data we conclude that the cavitation-induced fusion is feasible, doable, and can be used for commercial power generation. We present the results of our own research and disclose a commercial reactor prototype.

Google Tech TalksNovember 18, 2008
ABSTRACT
Electrical power is, and will increasingly become, the desired form of energy for its convenience, safety, flexibility and applicability. Even future transportation embraces electric cars, trains, and chemical fuel production (jet fuel, hydrogen, etc.) based upon an abundant electrical supply. Although existing energy sources can and should be expanded where practical, no one source has shown to be practical to rapidly fulfill the world's energy requirements effectively. Presently there is an existing source of energy ideally suited to electrical energy production that is not being exploited anywhere in the world today, although its existence and practicality has been know since the earliest days of nuclear science. Thorium is the third source of fission energy and the LFTR is the idealized mechanism to turn this resource into electrical energy. Enough safe, clean energy, globally sustainable for 1000's of years at US standards.
This talk is aimed at explaining this thorium energy resource from fundamental physics to today's practical applications. The presentation is sufficient for the non-scientist to grasp the whole subject, but will be intriguing to even classically trained nuclear engineers. By providing the historical context in which the technology was discovered and later developed into a power reactor, the story of thorium's disappearance as an energy source is revealed. But times have changed, and today, thorium energy can be safely exploited in a completely new form of nuclear reactor.
The LFTR is unique, having a hot liquid core thus eliminating fuel fabrication costs and the need for a large reactor. It cannot have a nuclear meltdown and is so safe that typical control rods are not required at all. This design topples all the conventional arguments against conventional energy sources in such areas as:
* WasteProduction
* Safety
* Proliferation
* CapitalCosts and Location
* Environmental Impact
* SocialAcceptance
* Flexibility
* Grid Infrastructure
* Efficiency
Should America take this step toward a New Era in Nuclear Energy Production? Hear the case for "The ElectricityRock" and then decide.
Speaker: Dr. Joe Bonometti
Dr. Bonometti has extensive engineering experience in the government, within industry, and in academia over a 25-year career. Recently completing an assignment as the NASAChairProfessor at the Naval Post graduateSchool, he supported a ship design study that utilized advanced nuclear power derived from thorium. Working at NASA for ten years as a technology manager, lead systems engineer, nuclear specialist, and propulsion researcher, he lead several NASA tiger teams in evaluating the NuclearSystem Initiatives fission demonstration vehicle and missions. He managed the Emerging Propulsion TechnologyArea for in-space systems, the MarshallAir Launch team, as well as a variety of other power and propulsion assignments and is now the LeadSystems Engineer for the Ares I-Y flight. After earning a Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alabama in Huntsville, he spent several years as a Research Scientist & SeniorResearchEngineer at the UAH Propulsion Research Center where he served as a Principal Investigator and manager for the Solar Thermal Laboratory. He has worked as a Senior MechanicalDesigner at Pratt & Whitney supporting aircraft engine manufacturing and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory within the laser fusion program. A graduate from the United States Military Academy, at West Point, where he studied nuclear physics and engineering, Dr. Bonometti served as an officer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers; both in combat and district engineering management assignments. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia, and has authored numerous aerospace technical publications, particularly propulsion and space systems technologies. His technical expertise includes nuclear engineering, specialized mechanical & materials research, space plasmas & propulsion, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and space systems engineering.
This Google Tech Talk was hosted by Boris Debic.

Google Tech TalksNovember 18, 2008
ABSTRACT
Electrical power is, and will increasingly become, the desired form of energy for its convenience, safety, flexibility and applicability. Even future transportation embraces electric cars, trains, and chemical fuel production (jet fuel, hydrogen, etc.) based upon an abundant electrical supply. Although existing energy sources can and should be expanded where practical, no one source has shown to be practical to rapidly fulfill the world's energy requirements effectively. Presently there is an existing source of energy ideally suited to electrical energy production that is not being exploited anywhere in the world today, although its existence and practicality has been know since the earliest days of nuclear science. Thorium is the third source of fission energy and the LFTR is the idealized mechanism to turn this resource into electrical energy. Enough safe, clean energy, globally sustainable for 1000's of years at US standards.
This talk is aimed at explaining this thorium energy resource from fundamental physics to today's practical applications. The presentation is sufficient for the non-scientist to grasp the whole subject, but will be intriguing to even classically trained nuclear engineers. By providing the historical context in which the technology was discovered and later developed into a power reactor, the story of thorium's disappearance as an energy source is revealed. But times have changed, and today, thorium energy can be safely exploited in a completely new form of nuclear reactor.
The LFTR is unique, having a hot liquid core thus eliminating fuel fabrication costs and the need for a large reactor. It cannot have a nuclear meltdown and is so safe that typical control rods are not required at all. This design topples all the conventional arguments against conventional energy sources in such areas as:
* WasteProduction
* Safety
* Proliferation
* CapitalCosts and Location
* Environmental Impact
* SocialAcceptance
* Flexibility
* Grid Infrastructure
* Efficiency
Should America take this step toward a New Era in Nuclear Energy Production? Hear the case for "The ElectricityRock" and then decide.
Speaker: Dr. Joe Bonometti
Dr. Bonometti has extensive engineering experience in the government, within industry, and in academia over a 25-year career. Recently completing an assignment as the NASAChairProfessor at the Naval Post graduateSchool, he supported a ship design study that utilized advanced nuclear power derived from thorium. Working at NASA for ten years as a technology manager, lead systems engineer, nuclear specialist, and propulsion researcher, he lead several NASA tiger teams in evaluating the NuclearSystem Initiatives fission demonstration vehicle and missions. He managed the Emerging Propulsion TechnologyArea for in-space systems, the MarshallAir Launch team, as well as a variety of other power and propulsion assignments and is now the LeadSystems Engineer for the Ares I-Y flight. After earning a Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alabama in Huntsville, he spent several years as a Research Scientist & SeniorResearchEngineer at the UAH Propulsion Research Center where he served as a Principal Investigator and manager for the Solar Thermal Laboratory. He has worked as a Senior MechanicalDesigner at Pratt & Whitney supporting aircraft engine manufacturing and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory within the laser fusion program. A graduate from the United States Military Academy, at West Point, where he studied nuclear physics and engineering, Dr. Bonometti served as an officer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers; both in combat and district engineering management assignments. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia, and has authored numerous aerospace technical publications, particularly propulsion and space systems technologies. His technical expertise includes nuclear engineering, specialized mechanical & materials research, space plasmas & propulsion, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and space systems engineering.
This Google Tech Talk was hosted by Boris Debic.

Mariko Mori is an artist who comes from a background in fashion, modeling and design. In 1993, she moved to New York City and enrolled in the independent study ...

Mariko Mori is an artist who comes from a background in fashion, modeling and design. In 1993, she moved to New York City and enrolled in the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, changing her career path from design to fine art. Mori is recognized for her distinctive style portraying Japanese tradition and futuristic thought, rarely bound to a particular space or time.She is a multifaceted artist who knows how to utilize her talents in a combination of ways. Over several different presentations of her work, she wore clothing she designed herself and appeared in her own art.
Meet Mariko Mori in this fifth episode of BrilliantIdeas brought to you by Bloomberg and Hyundai Motor.

Mariko Mori is an artist who comes from a background in fashion, modeling and design. In 1993, she moved to New York City and enrolled in the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, changing her career path from design to fine art. Mori is recognized for her distinctive style portraying Japanese tradition and futuristic thought, rarely bound to a particular space or time.She is a multifaceted artist who knows how to utilize her talents in a combination of ways. Over several different presentations of her work, she wore clothing she designed herself and appeared in her own art.
Meet Mariko Mori in this fifth episode of BrilliantIdeas brought to you by Bloomberg and Hyundai Motor.

The Impact of Nuclear Fusion

A detailed look at how Nuclear Fusion could impact our economy and civilization, from agriculture and water shortages to space stations and interstellar travel....

A detailed look at how Nuclear Fusion could impact our economy and civilization, from agriculture and water shortages to space stations and interstellar travel.
Support the Channel on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur
Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/cs03-the-impact-of-nuclear-fusion

A detailed look at how Nuclear Fusion could impact our economy and civilization, from agriculture and water shortages to space stations and interstellar travel.
Support the Channel on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur
Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/cs03-the-impact-of-nuclear-fusion

The Future of Energy (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 9)

At the UN Climate ChangeConference in Paris, world leaders agreed that climate change is an urgent threat -- cementing green energy production as a new frontie...

At the UN Climate ChangeConference in Paris, world leaders agreed that climate change is an urgent threat -- cementing green energy production as a new frontier of innovation. VICE takes an in-depth look at the future of how we make and use energy, and how we can meet growing demand as we cut carbon emissions.
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At the UN Climate ChangeConference in Paris, world leaders agreed that climate change is an urgent threat -- cementing green energy production as a new frontier of innovation. VICE takes an in-depth look at the future of how we make and use energy, and how we can meet growing demand as we cut carbon emissions.
WatchSeason 1: http://bit.ly/2s1T4Zs
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Thorium 2017

Thorium is an abundant material currently disposed of as waste. It is found in coal ash piles and mine tailings. A single Rare Earths mine could produce enough ...

Thorium is an abundant material currently disposed of as waste. It is found in coal ash piles and mine tailings. A single Rare Earths mine could produce enough Thorium byproduct to power the entire planet.
To do so requires a very different nuclear reactor than the kinds we use today. Not one that uses solid fuel rods, but a reactor in which the fuel is kept in a liquid state. Not one that uses pressurized water as a coolant, but a reactor that uses extremely stable molten salts.
The full description of one such reactor is: 2-Fluid, Thermal-Spectrum, Molten-Salt Breeder Reactor equipped with a chemical fuel salt treatment module. Such a reactor was conceived of decades ago, as documented in the book "FluidFuel Reactors" [1958].
Or, simply "LFTR" (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) as proposed by Flibe Energy's Kirk Sorensen... a modern redesign of the 2-Fluid, thermal-spectrum, MSBR concept.
http://Flibe-Energy.com/
Since 2011 (the year Flibe Energy was founded), legislators asking questions about Thorium have had their queries answered as if such a reactor design did not exist.
NNL [UK] and OECD [NEA] reports on the Thorium Fuel Cycle did not explore the implications of this reactor, and dismiss thorium based on challenges and mediocre performance found in other reactor designs.
For example, other options include a "Fast-Spectrum Molten-Salt Reactor". Worth pursuing, certainly, but requires more fissile inventory than LFTR... approximately 5x as much. (Fissile inventory is specifically mentioned as a concern by OECD's thorium report.) And assuming the challenges of a fast-spectrum MSR can be met... both natural Uranium and natural Thorium can both be fully consumed as fuel in a fast-spectrum reactor. That is where Thorium is dismissed as only "4x as common as Uranium" (fast-spectrum usage) rather than "400x as common as U-235" (thermal-spectrum usage).
Thorium's advantages: both thermal-spectrum breeding and unique chemical properties, are taken full advantage of only by LFTR style reactors.
When evaluated in any other reactor, depending on that reactor, Uranium can be as attractive, more attractive, or Uranium can be the only viable option.
For example: Shippingport. Cited as an example of a "Thorium Reactor" by Dr. Lyons, it was NEVER intended to be economical, and features no advantages of LFTR. It was a solid-fuel reactor, and so operated at low-temperature, had no on-line chemical reprocessing, used high-pressure water coolant, used fuel as inefficiently as every other solid-fuel reactor, and had to be shut down every time it was refueled. 2 of its 3 fuel loads were Enriched Uranium. It was -a- Reactor capable of consuming Thorium and demonstrated only that it was possible... it was not -THE- Thorium Reactor.
If you'd like to watch a mini-series length (6.5h) documentary on this topic, please check out "Thorium." https://youtu.be/2oK6Rs6yFsM ...it goes into some technical detail on Thorium and Molten Salt Reactors, as well as nuclear power itself.
This video exists thanks to support pledged via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thorium
Other videos I've edited on Thorium & Molten Salt Reactors can be found here: http://ThoriumRemix.com/
Music (at 28:29) created by Kilowatts: http://kilowattsmusic.com/
00:00 LWR: 0.05% of Uranium's Energy Potential
00:54 LWR: ChemicalInstability
01:38 LWR: High Pressure
02:48 Alvin Weinberg
03:05 HighTemperature not High Pressure
03:40 MSRE Achievement
03:51 Graphite
04:08 MoveHeatNo Pressure
04:45 Salt: IonicBonds
05:33 Fluoride vs Fluorine
06:16 Cesium & Iodine
06:33 DrainTank
07:53 Disperse Heat
08:36 Solid Fuel: Candles
09:24 Online Chemical Reprocessing
10:15 Legislators ask about Thorium
10:46 OECD NEA Thorium Report
11:23 Fast-Spectrum Dodge
12:08 Spent Fuel
12:34 Efficient
13:49 Concentrated
14:10 Rare Earth Elements
15:41 China'sAcademy of Science
16:34 CO2Raw Material
17:07 Recycling
18:05 Sorting
18:52 NASA, Recycling & Energy
20:57 Molten Salt Research Halted
21:28 World Set Free
21:55 Documents
22:28 CD-ROMs and Internet
23:15 Obama Administration
24:33 Regulations vs Liquid Fuel
25:12 Stymied in USA
26:08 Flibe Energy
26:41 MSRE Researchers
27:14 Export of MSR Expertise
27:41 China vs Global Warming
28:29 1969-2017 Timeline
33:08 Thousands of years of Slavery
33:32 Energy Density of Thorium
Other Video Sources
02:46 https://youtu.be/EviEN0ScOwg Pandora's Box
03:08 https://youtu.be/ofs6-K7UCSU Weinberg 2011
03:41 https://youtu.be/pGzKuhY50v4 Weinberg 2004
03:41 https://youtu.be/tyDbq5HRs0o Found MSRE Doc
05:34 https://youtu.be/vtWp45Eewtw Fluorine (PToV)
05:54 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoK41_2JS4E_ZZyJSH7g-AhiiwMoCoFCB (MSBR3.0-ORNL-4528)
30:51 http://www.citizen-films.fr/en/thorium/ (T:TFSoN)

Thorium is an abundant material currently disposed of as waste. It is found in coal ash piles and mine tailings. A single Rare Earths mine could produce enough Thorium byproduct to power the entire planet.
To do so requires a very different nuclear reactor than the kinds we use today. Not one that uses solid fuel rods, but a reactor in which the fuel is kept in a liquid state. Not one that uses pressurized water as a coolant, but a reactor that uses extremely stable molten salts.
The full description of one such reactor is: 2-Fluid, Thermal-Spectrum, Molten-Salt Breeder Reactor equipped with a chemical fuel salt treatment module. Such a reactor was conceived of decades ago, as documented in the book "FluidFuel Reactors" [1958].
Or, simply "LFTR" (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) as proposed by Flibe Energy's Kirk Sorensen... a modern redesign of the 2-Fluid, thermal-spectrum, MSBR concept.
http://Flibe-Energy.com/
Since 2011 (the year Flibe Energy was founded), legislators asking questions about Thorium have had their queries answered as if such a reactor design did not exist.
NNL [UK] and OECD [NEA] reports on the Thorium Fuel Cycle did not explore the implications of this reactor, and dismiss thorium based on challenges and mediocre performance found in other reactor designs.
For example, other options include a "Fast-Spectrum Molten-Salt Reactor". Worth pursuing, certainly, but requires more fissile inventory than LFTR... approximately 5x as much. (Fissile inventory is specifically mentioned as a concern by OECD's thorium report.) And assuming the challenges of a fast-spectrum MSR can be met... both natural Uranium and natural Thorium can both be fully consumed as fuel in a fast-spectrum reactor. That is where Thorium is dismissed as only "4x as common as Uranium" (fast-spectrum usage) rather than "400x as common as U-235" (thermal-spectrum usage).
Thorium's advantages: both thermal-spectrum breeding and unique chemical properties, are taken full advantage of only by LFTR style reactors.
When evaluated in any other reactor, depending on that reactor, Uranium can be as attractive, more attractive, or Uranium can be the only viable option.
For example: Shippingport. Cited as an example of a "Thorium Reactor" by Dr. Lyons, it was NEVER intended to be economical, and features no advantages of LFTR. It was a solid-fuel reactor, and so operated at low-temperature, had no on-line chemical reprocessing, used high-pressure water coolant, used fuel as inefficiently as every other solid-fuel reactor, and had to be shut down every time it was refueled. 2 of its 3 fuel loads were Enriched Uranium. It was -a- Reactor capable of consuming Thorium and demonstrated only that it was possible... it was not -THE- Thorium Reactor.
If you'd like to watch a mini-series length (6.5h) documentary on this topic, please check out "Thorium." https://youtu.be/2oK6Rs6yFsM ...it goes into some technical detail on Thorium and Molten Salt Reactors, as well as nuclear power itself.
This video exists thanks to support pledged via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thorium
Other videos I've edited on Thorium & Molten Salt Reactors can be found here: http://ThoriumRemix.com/
Music (at 28:29) created by Kilowatts: http://kilowattsmusic.com/
00:00 LWR: 0.05% of Uranium's Energy Potential
00:54 LWR: ChemicalInstability
01:38 LWR: High Pressure
02:48 Alvin Weinberg
03:05 HighTemperature not High Pressure
03:40 MSRE Achievement
03:51 Graphite
04:08 MoveHeatNo Pressure
04:45 Salt: IonicBonds
05:33 Fluoride vs Fluorine
06:16 Cesium & Iodine
06:33 DrainTank
07:53 Disperse Heat
08:36 Solid Fuel: Candles
09:24 Online Chemical Reprocessing
10:15 Legislators ask about Thorium
10:46 OECD NEA Thorium Report
11:23 Fast-Spectrum Dodge
12:08 Spent Fuel
12:34 Efficient
13:49 Concentrated
14:10 Rare Earth Elements
15:41 China'sAcademy of Science
16:34 CO2Raw Material
17:07 Recycling
18:05 Sorting
18:52 NASA, Recycling & Energy
20:57 Molten Salt Research Halted
21:28 World Set Free
21:55 Documents
22:28 CD-ROMs and Internet
23:15 Obama Administration
24:33 Regulations vs Liquid Fuel
25:12 Stymied in USA
26:08 Flibe Energy
26:41 MSRE Researchers
27:14 Export of MSR Expertise
27:41 China vs Global Warming
28:29 1969-2017 Timeline
33:08 Thousands of years of Slavery
33:32 Energy Density of Thorium
Other Video Sources
02:46 https://youtu.be/EviEN0ScOwg Pandora's Box
03:08 https://youtu.be/ofs6-K7UCSU Weinberg 2011
03:41 https://youtu.be/pGzKuhY50v4 Weinberg 2004
03:41 https://youtu.be/tyDbq5HRs0o Found MSRE Doc
05:34 https://youtu.be/vtWp45Eewtw Fluorine (PToV)
05:54 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoK41_2JS4E_ZZyJSH7g-AhiiwMoCoFCB (MSBR3.0-ORNL-4528)
30:51 http://www.citizen-films.fr/en/thorium/ (T:TFSoN)

Our future health, happiness and economic well-being depends on producing plentiful, inexpensive, carbon-free energy that is available 24 hours/day, worldwide. Coal, oil and gas supply over 80% of the world's energy but cause pollution and add to global warming. Renewable energy, such as wind and solar, may not be able to supply enough energy. Ed Moses and the National Ignition Facility have an idea that could change everything-fusion energy-unlocking the force inside the nucleus of hydrogen that powers the sun and the stars. Learn what it will take for fusion power to become a reality in the next few decades. Series: "Science on Saturday" [1/2011] [Science] [Show ID: 20233]

Our future health, happiness and economic well-being depends on producing plentiful, inexpensive, carbon-free energy that is available 24 hours/day, worldwide. Coal, oil and gas supply over 80% of the world's energy but cause pollution and add to global warming. Renewable energy, such as wind and solar, may not be able to supply enough energy. Ed Moses and the National Ignition Facility have an idea that could change everything-fusion energy-unlocking the force inside the nucleus of hydrogen that powers the sun and the stars. Learn what it will take for fusion power to become a reality in the next few decades. Series: "Science on Saturday" [1/2011] [Science] [Show ID: 20233]

Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has won backing to create a company to realize his vision, explains why he's so excited about his innovative design for small modular fission reactors -- and why it could be the next big step in solving the global energy crisis.
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6:16

Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure

How does Fusion Energy work and is it a good idea?
Support us on Patreon so we can make m...

Lockheed Martin: Compact Fusion Research & Development

Learn more: http://lockheedmartin.com/compactfusion
At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re making advancements in the development of fusion energy, the ultimate form of renewable power. Our scientists and engineers are looking at the biggest natural fusion reactor for inspiration – the sun. By containing the power of the sun in a small magnetic bottle, we are on the fast track to developing compact fusion reactors to serve the world’s ever-growing energy needs. Learn more about compact fusion: http://lmt.co/1rfsakG

How NIF Works

The NationalIgnitionFacility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the world's largest laser system...192 huge laser beams in a massive building, all focused down at the last moment at a 2 millimeter ball containing frozen hydrogen gas. The goal is to achieve fusion... getting more energy out than was used to create it. It's never been done before under controlled conditions, just in nuclear weapons and in stars. The purpose is threefold: to create an almost limitless supply of safe, carbon-free, proliferation-free electricity; examine new regimes of astrophysics as well as basic science; and study the inner-workings of the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure they remain safe, secure and reliable without the need for underground testing. More information about NIF can be found at: https://lasers.llnl.gov

4:25

Laser Fusion -- Is It Back to the Future Yet?

Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers...

Laser Fusion -- Is It Back to the Future Yet?

Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
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https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2014/Feb/NR-14-02-06.html#.UwOdTl5DGU1
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13008.html
http://www.wtsp.com/news/national/article/356537/81/Laser-bombardment-yields-energy-milestone
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-powered-lasers-deliver-fusion-energy-breakthrough/
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/national-ignition-facility-announces-record-amount-fusion-energy

1:51

Visualizing a Future of Fusion

TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s b...

Visualizing a Future of Fusion

TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Our core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. It’s what we call FriendlyFusion. Our groundbreaking work has effected industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on our results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow. Our explainer video will help illustrate the work we’re doing with field-reverse configurations (FRCs), and offer insights into how we operate Norman. / Formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy

6:08

Quark fusion

Following the discovery of a doubly charmed baryon at the LHC theoretical physicists have ...

Quark fusion

Following the discovery of a doubly charmed baryon at the LHC theoretical physicists have come across a quark fusion process that offers enormous amounts of energy. Could quark fusion one day power humanity? Maybe.
The fusion diagram is taken from the nature article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24289

3:44

Is Fusion Energy Close To Becoming A Reality?

Lockheed Martin claims to have a fusion reactor built in the next 5 years. How would this ...

Is Fusion Energy Close To Becoming A Reality?

Lockheed Martin claims to have a fusion reactor built in the next 5 years. How would this technology work, and what would this mean for the world? Trace explains.
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Read More:
Lockheed Martin’sPlan to Make Fusion (Finally) a Reality
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/lockheed-martins-plan-to-make-fusion-a-reality-17337914
“Lockheed Martin's secret fusion power program came out of hiding last week. This week, the Skunk Works engineer in charge of the ambitious effort met with reporters to explain just how the defense giant plans to make fusion the real deal within five to 10 years.”
Lockheed Martin’s fusion goals meet scepticism
http://www.nature.com/news/lockheed-martin-s-fusion-goals-meet-scepticism-1.16169
“Lockheed Martin formally entered the nuclear-fusion arena on 15 October, laying out a 10-year roadmap to commercialize a reactor that would fit on the back of a lorry.”
Mr. Fusion? Compact Fusion Reactor Will be Available in 5 Years Says Lockheed-Martin
http://www.universetoday.com/115411/fusion-energy-always-50-years-away-now-just-5-according-to-lockheed-martin/
“The Farnsworth Fusor; Pons and Fleishmann. It seems the trail to fusion energy has long gone cold — stone cold, that is, and not cold as in cold fusion.”
Does Lockheed Martin Really Have a Breakthrough Fusion Machine?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531836/does-lockheed-martin-really-have-a-breakthrough-fusion-machine/
“Lockheed Martin’s announcement last week that it had secretly developed a promising design for a compact nuclear fusion reactor has met with excitement but also skepticism over the basic feasibility of its approach.”
Compact Fusion
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html
“It’s no secret that our Skunk Works® team often finds itself on the cutting edge of technology.”
Harnessing the Energy of Nuclear Fusion Reactions with Superconductors and Lasers
http://www.cas.org/news/insights/science-connections/nuclear-fusion
“What do a six-ton superconductor and the world's largest laser have in common? Both are fundamental components in two very different approaches to harnessing the energy of nuclear fusion reactions.”
Skunk Works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
“Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects.”
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20:05

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our ...

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
Parts of this video were in the process of being made for over 6 years, so I'm very excited to finally share it with the world. Many of the newer parts were filmed at Scihouse and this video wouldn't have been possible without Scihouse. For more info on Scihouse, check out the links below:
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Useful links:
Making a Scariac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UjxG8sN1c
Inductive ballasts - http://www.lisungroup.com/article-id-167.htmlFusor forums - fusor.net
Applied scienceMagnetron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEz_e9C4KM
Circuit tool - http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
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9:29

Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

Taylor Wilson ~ 14 year old builds working nuclear fusion reactor in garage

The Answer to all our energy "problems": Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion, although virtually ignored by mainstream academic research, has continued underground through the efforts of brave and dedicated scientists. I am now pleased to bring you the technological and theoretical breakthrough we've all been waiting for...Clean, virtually inexhaustible energy in the form of sea water! Let the Cold Fusion Revolution begin!
1 Teaspoon of Heavy Water has the energy content of 300 Gallons of Gasoline. You could go 55 million miles on a gallon. There is enough deuterium fusion fuel in the top 1 foot of seawater in the San Francisco Bay to supply all of mankind's projected energy needs for the next 50-100 years... And you wonder why the Federal Reserve Corporation has been suppressing it... Since their petro-dollars and their power is backed by Oil.
India's Top ScientistsAdviseGovernment to revive cold fusion research:
http://www.indianewspost.com/sci-tech/40503-cold_fusion_offers_best_way_to_generate_power_scientist.html
Cold Fusion is real power generation source:
http://www.nature.com/nindia/2008/080117/full/nindia.2008.77.html
Cold Fusion NOW!
http://coldfusionnow.org/
US NAVY Report on Cold Fusion:
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/tr/1696/tr1696.pdfWired Science article on US Navy Cold Fusion:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/cold_fusion
Some important information about Steven E. Jones' involvement in cold fusion research (Very helpful Information):
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/131history.html
The ObamaSpeech can be found here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-a-discussion-jobs-and-economy-charlotte-north-carolina
Cold Fusion Links:
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/ColdFusionHistory.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110450.htm
http://www.livescience.com/technology/090323-cold-fusion.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/6726-could-cold-fusion-really-workr/
http://www.dailytech.com/Navy+Heats+Up+Cold+Fusion+Hopes/article7168.htm
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/319galileo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant
"Znidarsic's Constant" 1,094,000 m/s - is the key to Cold Fusion and has many other practical applications of atomic resonance effects for control over the natural forces.
The Theory and work of Frank Znidarsic:
Frank Znidarsic's latest versions of his papers:
The Quantization of Energy: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46167299
Control of the Natural Forces: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46167516
Here is a summary of Frank's work written for scientists:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42057333/The-Transitional-Quantum-State-of-Matter
(if you want to show this theory to a physicist or scientist, this is the paper to print out and give to them)
Frank's Papers:
1) The duality of Matter and Waves:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34365659
2) Reconciling Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33043355/
3) Control of the Natural Forces
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25455268/Control-of-the-Natural-Forces
Znidarsic's Constant on Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1094000+m%2Fs
Frank Znidarsic's Website with all the info:
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/
Chapter 7 on Frank's website details some important steps such as deriving the Schrodinger Equation from Znidarsic's Constant. It also shows exactly what gravity is, and where it comes from.
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/chapter7.html
Important stuff to know about magnetic fields:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwells_equations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%27_theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)

Plasma is one of the weirder states of matter but learning to harness it has provided our species with almost all of our best technology. This video first explores what plasma is and how to make it, and then explores how we can use it to make functional devices. Everything from building a high voltage system from scratch, to learning how vacuum systems work is covered and is used to build simple fusion reactors, magnetrons and more.
Parts of this video were in the process of being made for over 6 years, so I'm very excited to finally share it with the world. Many of the newer parts were filmed at Scihouse and this video wouldn't have been possible without Scihouse. For more info on Scihouse, check out the links below:
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Useful links:
Making a Scariac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UjxG8sN1c
Inductive ballasts - http://www.lisungroup.com/article-id-167.htmlFusor forums - fusor.net
Applied scienceMagnetron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEz_e9C4KM
Circuit tool - http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
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1:54:57

America and The Nuclear Fusion Full Documentary 2016 Movies

A team of scientists in California announced Wednesday they are one step closer to develop...

America and The Nuclear Fusion Full Documentary 2016 Movies

A team of scientists in California announced Wednesday they are one step closer to developing the almost mythical pollution-free, controlled fusion-energy reaction, though the goal of full “ignition” is still far off.
Researchers at the federally-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory revealed in a study released Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature that, for the first time, one of their experiments has yielded more energy out of fusion than was used in the fuel that created the reaction.
In a 10-story building the size of three football fields, the Livermore scientists “used 192 lasers to compress a pellet of fuel and generate a reaction in which more energy came out of the fuel core than went into it,” wrote the Washington Post. “Ignition” would mean more energy was produced than was used in the entire process.
"We're closer than anyone's gotten before," said Omar Hurricane, a physicist at Livermore and lead author of the study. "It does show there's promise."
The process ultimately mimics the processes in the core of a star inside the laboratory’s hardware. Nuclear fusion, which is how the sun is heated, creates energy when atomic nuclei fuse and form a larger atom.
"This isn't like building a bridge," Hurricane told USA Today in an interview. "This is an exceedingly hard problem. You're basically trying to produce a star, on a small scale, here on Earth."
A fusion reactor would operate on a common form of hydrogen found in sea water and create minimal nuclear waste while not being nearly as volatile as a traditional nuclear-fission reactor. Fission, used in nuclear power plants, works by splitting atoms.
Hurricane said he does not know how long it will take to reach that point, where fusion is a viable energy source.
"Picture yourself halfway up a mountain, but the mountain is covered in clouds," he told reporters on a conference call Wednesday. “And then someone calls you on your satellite phone and asks you, ‘How long is it going to take you to climb to the top of the mountain?’ You just don’t know.”
The beams of the 192 lasers Livermore used can pinpoint extreme amounts of energy in billionth-of-a-second pulses on any target. Hurricane said the energy produced by the process was about twice the amount that was in the fuel of the plastic-capsule target. Though the amount of energy yielded equaled only around 1 percent of energy delivered by the lasers to the capsule to ignite the process.
“When briefly compressed by the laser pulses, the isotopes fused, generating new particles and heating up the fuel further and generating still more nuclear reactions, particles and heat,” wrote the Washington Post, adding that the feedback mechanism is known as “alpha heating.”
DebbieCallahan, co-author of the study, said the capsule had to be compressed 35 times to start the reaction, “akin to compressing a basketball to the size of a pea,” according to USA Today.
While applauding the Livermore team’s findings, fusion experts added researchers have “a factor of about 100 to go.”
"These results are still a long way from ignition, but they represent a significant step forward in fusion research," said Mark Herrmann of the Sandia National Laboratories' Pulsed Power Sciences Center. "Achieving pressures this large, even for vanishingly short times, is no easy task."
Livermore is the site of the multi-billion-dollar National Ignition Facility, funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration. Fusion experiments aren’t the only function of the lab; for example, it also studies the processes of nuclear weapon explosions.
Long-pursued by scientists dating back to Albert Einstein, fusion energy does not emit greenhouse gases or leave behind radioactive waste. Since the 1940s, researchers have employed magnetic fields to contain high-temperature hydrogen fuel. Laser use began in the 1970s.
"We have waited 60 years to get close to controlled fusion," said, Steve Cowley, of the United Kingdom'sCulham Center for Fusion Energy. He added scientists are "now close" with both magnets and lasers. "We must keep at it."
Stewart Prager - director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, which studies fusion using magnets - told the Post he was optimistic about fusion energy’s future.

Cavitation-Induced Fusion: Proof of Concept

Max Fomitchev-Zamilov - Cavitation-induced fusion (also known as bubble fusion or sonofusion) has been a topic of much debate and controversy and is generally (albeit incorrectly) perceived as unworkable. In this paper we present the theoretical foundations of cavitation-induced fusion and summarize the experimental results of the research conducted in the past 20 years. Based on the systematic study of all available data we conclude that the cavitation-induced fusion is feasible, doable, and can be used for commercial power generation. We present the results of our own research and disclose a commercial reactor prototype.

The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

Google Tech TalksNovember 18, 2008
ABSTRACT
Electrical power is, and will increasingly become, the desired form of energy for its convenience, safety, flexibility and applicability. Even future transportation embraces electric cars, trains, and chemical fuel production (jet fuel, hydrogen, etc.) based upon an abundant electrical supply. Although existing energy sources can and should be expanded where practical, no one source has shown to be practical to rapidly fulfill the world's energy requirements effectively. Presently there is an existing source of energy ideally suited to electrical energy production that is not being exploited anywhere in the world today, although its existence and practicality has been know since the earliest days of nuclear science. Thorium is the third source of fission energy and the LFTR is the idealized mechanism to turn this resource into electrical energy. Enough safe, clean energy, globally sustainable for 1000's of years at US standards.
This talk is aimed at explaining this thorium energy resource from fundamental physics to today's practical applications. The presentation is sufficient for the non-scientist to grasp the whole subject, but will be intriguing to even classically trained nuclear engineers. By providing the historical context in which the technology was discovered and later developed into a power reactor, the story of thorium's disappearance as an energy source is revealed. But times have changed, and today, thorium energy can be safely exploited in a completely new form of nuclear reactor.
The LFTR is unique, having a hot liquid core thus eliminating fuel fabrication costs and the need for a large reactor. It cannot have a nuclear meltdown and is so safe that typical control rods are not required at all. This design topples all the conventional arguments against conventional energy sources in such areas as:
* WasteProduction
* Safety
* Proliferation
* CapitalCosts and Location
* Environmental Impact
* SocialAcceptance
* Flexibility
* Grid Infrastructure
* Efficiency
Should America take this step toward a New Era in Nuclear Energy Production? Hear the case for "The ElectricityRock" and then decide.
Speaker: Dr. Joe Bonometti
Dr. Bonometti has extensive engineering experience in the government, within industry, and in academia over a 25-year career. Recently completing an assignment as the NASAChairProfessor at the Naval Post graduateSchool, he supported a ship design study that utilized advanced nuclear power derived from thorium. Working at NASA for ten years as a technology manager, lead systems engineer, nuclear specialist, and propulsion researcher, he lead several NASA tiger teams in evaluating the NuclearSystem Initiatives fission demonstration vehicle and missions. He managed the Emerging Propulsion TechnologyArea for in-space systems, the MarshallAir Launch team, as well as a variety of other power and propulsion assignments and is now the LeadSystems Engineer for the Ares I-Y flight. After earning a Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alabama in Huntsville, he spent several years as a Research Scientist & SeniorResearchEngineer at the UAH Propulsion Research Center where he served as a Principal Investigator and manager for the Solar Thermal Laboratory. He has worked as a Senior MechanicalDesigner at Pratt & Whitney supporting aircraft engine manufacturing and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory within the laser fusion program. A graduate from the United States Military Academy, at West Point, where he studied nuclear physics and engineering, Dr. Bonometti served as an officer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers; both in combat and district engineering management assignments. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia, and has authored numerous aerospace technical publications, particularly propulsion and space systems technologies. His technical expertise includes nuclear engineering, specialized mechanical & materials research, space plasmas & propulsion, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and space systems engineering.
This Google Tech Talk was hosted by Boris Debic.

Mariko Mori is an artist who comes from a background in fashion, modeling and design. In 1993, she moved to New York City and enrolled in the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, changing her career path from design to fine art. Mori is recognized for her distinctive style portraying Japanese tradition and futuristic thought, rarely bound to a particular space or time.She is a multifaceted artist who knows how to utilize her talents in a combination of ways. Over several different presentations of her work, she wore clothing she designed herself and appeared in her own art.
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The Impact of Nuclear Fusion

A detailed look at how Nuclear Fusion could impact our economy and civilization, from agri...

The Impact of Nuclear Fusion

A detailed look at how Nuclear Fusion could impact our economy and civilization, from agriculture and water shortages to space stations and interstellar travel.
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The Future of Energy (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 9)

At the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, world leaders agreed that climate change is ...

The Future of Energy (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 9)

At the UN Climate ChangeConference in Paris, world leaders agreed that climate change is an urgent threat -- cementing green energy production as a new frontier of innovation. VICE takes an in-depth look at the future of how we make and use energy, and how we can meet growing demand as we cut carbon emissions.
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Thorium 2017

Thorium is an abundant material currently disposed of as waste. It is found in coal ash pi...

Thorium 2017

Thorium is an abundant material currently disposed of as waste. It is found in coal ash piles and mine tailings. A single Rare Earths mine could produce enough Thorium byproduct to power the entire planet.
To do so requires a very different nuclear reactor than the kinds we use today. Not one that uses solid fuel rods, but a reactor in which the fuel is kept in a liquid state. Not one that uses pressurized water as a coolant, but a reactor that uses extremely stable molten salts.
The full description of one such reactor is: 2-Fluid, Thermal-Spectrum, Molten-Salt Breeder Reactor equipped with a chemical fuel salt treatment module. Such a reactor was conceived of decades ago, as documented in the book "FluidFuel Reactors" [1958].
Or, simply "LFTR" (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) as proposed by Flibe Energy's Kirk Sorensen... a modern redesign of the 2-Fluid, thermal-spectrum, MSBR concept.
http://Flibe-Energy.com/
Since 2011 (the year Flibe Energy was founded), legislators asking questions about Thorium have had their queries answered as if such a reactor design did not exist.
NNL [UK] and OECD [NEA] reports on the Thorium Fuel Cycle did not explore the implications of this reactor, and dismiss thorium based on challenges and mediocre performance found in other reactor designs.
For example, other options include a "Fast-Spectrum Molten-Salt Reactor". Worth pursuing, certainly, but requires more fissile inventory than LFTR... approximately 5x as much. (Fissile inventory is specifically mentioned as a concern by OECD's thorium report.) And assuming the challenges of a fast-spectrum MSR can be met... both natural Uranium and natural Thorium can both be fully consumed as fuel in a fast-spectrum reactor. That is where Thorium is dismissed as only "4x as common as Uranium" (fast-spectrum usage) rather than "400x as common as U-235" (thermal-spectrum usage).
Thorium's advantages: both thermal-spectrum breeding and unique chemical properties, are taken full advantage of only by LFTR style reactors.
When evaluated in any other reactor, depending on that reactor, Uranium can be as attractive, more attractive, or Uranium can be the only viable option.
For example: Shippingport. Cited as an example of a "Thorium Reactor" by Dr. Lyons, it was NEVER intended to be economical, and features no advantages of LFTR. It was a solid-fuel reactor, and so operated at low-temperature, had no on-line chemical reprocessing, used high-pressure water coolant, used fuel as inefficiently as every other solid-fuel reactor, and had to be shut down every time it was refueled. 2 of its 3 fuel loads were Enriched Uranium. It was -a- Reactor capable of consuming Thorium and demonstrated only that it was possible... it was not -THE- Thorium Reactor.
If you'd like to watch a mini-series length (6.5h) documentary on this topic, please check out "Thorium." https://youtu.be/2oK6Rs6yFsM ...it goes into some technical detail on Thorium and Molten Salt Reactors, as well as nuclear power itself.
This video exists thanks to support pledged via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thorium
Other videos I've edited on Thorium & Molten Salt Reactors can be found here: http://ThoriumRemix.com/
Music (at 28:29) created by Kilowatts: http://kilowattsmusic.com/
00:00 LWR: 0.05% of Uranium's Energy Potential
00:54 LWR: ChemicalInstability
01:38 LWR: High Pressure
02:48 Alvin Weinberg
03:05 HighTemperature not High Pressure
03:40 MSRE Achievement
03:51 Graphite
04:08 MoveHeatNo Pressure
04:45 Salt: IonicBonds
05:33 Fluoride vs Fluorine
06:16 Cesium & Iodine
06:33 DrainTank
07:53 Disperse Heat
08:36 Solid Fuel: Candles
09:24 Online Chemical Reprocessing
10:15 Legislators ask about Thorium
10:46 OECD NEA Thorium Report
11:23 Fast-Spectrum Dodge
12:08 Spent Fuel
12:34 Efficient
13:49 Concentrated
14:10 Rare Earth Elements
15:41 China'sAcademy of Science
16:34 CO2Raw Material
17:07 Recycling
18:05 Sorting
18:52 NASA, Recycling & Energy
20:57 Molten Salt Research Halted
21:28 World Set Free
21:55 Documents
22:28 CD-ROMs and Internet
23:15 Obama Administration
24:33 Regulations vs Liquid Fuel
25:12 Stymied in USA
26:08 Flibe Energy
26:41 MSRE Researchers
27:14 Export of MSR Expertise
27:41 China vs Global Warming
28:29 1969-2017 Timeline
33:08 Thousands of years of Slavery
33:32 Energy Density of Thorium
Other Video Sources
02:46 https://youtu.be/EviEN0ScOwg Pandora's Box
03:08 https://youtu.be/ofs6-K7UCSU Weinberg 2011
03:41 https://youtu.be/pGzKuhY50v4 Weinberg 2004
03:41 https://youtu.be/tyDbq5HRs0o Found MSRE Doc
05:34 https://youtu.be/vtWp45Eewtw Fluorine (PToV)
05:54 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoK41_2JS4E_ZZyJSH7g-AhiiwMoCoFCB (MSBR3.0-ORNL-4528)
30:51 http://www.citizen-films.fr/en/thorium/ (T:TFSoN)

Harnessing Fusion Energy: The Power of Light

Our future health, happiness and economic well-being depends on producing plentiful, inexpensive, carbon-free energy that is available 24 hours/day, worldwide. Coal, oil and gas supply over 80% of the world's energy but cause pollution and add to global warming. Renewable energy, such as wind and solar, may not be able to supply enough energy. Ed Moses and the National Ignition Facility have an idea that could change everything-fusion energy-unlocking the force inside the nucleus of hydrogen that powers the sun and the stars. Learn what it will take for fusion power to become a reality in the next few decades. Series: "Science on Saturday" [1/2011] [Science] [Show ID: 20233]

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